by Megan Durham | Sep 6, 2011
I think I spend too much time thinking about language. I like thinking about how words fit together and how they evolve in usage and meaning. In fact one of the best things about my recent reading of literature from the 1920’s is seeing how words like...
by Megan Durham | Sep 6, 2011
My main computer is currently down for the count, leaving me with a tablet that is a tad hard to type and do work on. So today’s post is going to be a bit threadbare. However, I’ve been interested in radioactivity recently and have a couple of...
by Megan Durham | Sep 2, 2011
I love the Opinionator in general, but this article from yesterday is a little frightening. It’s a review of Last Call by Daniel Okrent, but it’s also a look at how modern politics mirror those at the time of Prohibition. But the film and book...
by Megan Durham | Sep 1, 2011
I believe that I’ve mentioned my love of my Kindle here before. It’s an amazing device that allows me to never, ever be without a book. (On a related note, I find that I also never have to talk to anyone on the bus if I don’t want to....
by Megan Durham | Aug 29, 2011
Too often science seems like a lofty ideal, a great and impossible muse that only those with years of education and impossibly high IQs (or at least a copious supply of white lab coats) can actually commune with. But then something like Galaxy Zoo comes along to...
